All Pfizer articles – Page 2
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Research
Baran and Blackmond team up to wave farewell to tough ether syntheses
Oxidative decarboxylation produces carbocations that greatly speed up hindered ether production
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Business
Pfizer to close two manufacturing plants in India
Closures will lead to the loss of 1700 jobs – almost 6% of the pharma giant’s manufacturing workforce
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Business
GSK and Pfizer joint venture creates new consumer healthcare giant
Enlarged GSK consumer health will have largest market share of any firm and be a leader in key countries
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Opinion
Pushing the limits of patent protection
Some methods of extending exclusivity rights raise legal and ethical questions
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Opinion
The projects drug companies wish they’d never started
Failures are common in drug research, but some are bigger than others
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Business
Trump coaxes big promises from big pharma
Several drug industry giants are now pledging to freeze price increases in the US, but some suggest the movement is a publicity stunt or worse
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News
English health service could recover £500m in drug costs from Pfizer
NHS England may have paid over the odds for pain drug whose patent has now been revoked
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Research
1500 reactions per day go with the flow
Automated flow chemistry system puts high-speed spin on drug discovery
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Business
Dementia slips down pharma agenda
Pfizer, Shire, Acorda and Axovant rethink their neuroscience strategies
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Business
US to invest $160m in cancer partnership
Funds will be backed up with $55m from 11 companies to advance new cancer treatments that harness the immune system
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Business
Long road to recovery for Puerto Rico pharmaceuticals
As inhabitants begin to rebuild their lives after the devastation of hurricane Maria, the island’s drug manufacturers are recovering slowly
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Business
Amgen partners to launch biosimilars in China
US biopharma and Chinese generics firm will co-develop medicines from Amgen’s pipeline focused on inflammation and oncology
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Business
FDA warns Pfizer subsidiary over Epipen malfunctions
Manufacturer did not fully investigate reports of patients dying after auto-injector failures
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Business
US court denies Amgen appeal over Pfizer biosimilar
Amgen has lost its bid to compel Pfizer to divulge information about its version of anaemia drug Epogen
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Business
Amplifying intelligent drug design
This year’s Chemistry World Entrepreneur of the year is Andrew Hopkins of start-up Exscientia and the University of Dundee, UK
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Business
First biomarker-driven approval exemplifies cancer immunotherapy progress
Landmark decision is latest step in field’s impressive – but not wholly untroubled – advance
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Feature
Covalent inhibitor drugs
Exceptions to a long-held rule against chemically bonding to biological targets are powering new cancer medicines, finds Andy Extance
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News
Alzheimer’s disease: have drug developers been on the wrong track?
Dementia drug developers urged to look beyond amyloid